In article <cistron.407D01BB.90708@he.iki.fi>,
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
That was solved 6 years ago. You let them use port 587 instead of 25.
RFC 2476 - Message Submission (RFC2476)How many MUAs default to port 587?
The one I use daily does.
How many even know about 587 and give
it as an option other than fill-in-the-blank?
Setting up authenticated SMTP in most MUAs is an order of a magnitude
more complicated than changing port 25 to 587 anyway.
...back to the computer literacy requirement again...
How many support calls you get by requiring 587 instead of 25?
I don't know, but we get a lot of support calls about spam
and viruses, so if we can cut back on those ..
But the subject is still spot-on: not moving customers to port
587 for mail submission because it would be "too hard" is
laziness on the part of the ISP.
Mike.